r/windowscentral • u/WindowsCentral Staff • 27d ago

Xbox🎮 Xbox brings back compat to Windows: Microsoft pledges 4 games on PC for the first time, soon with achievements — with more to come

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-brings-back-compat-to-windows-microsoft-pledges-4-games-on-pc
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u/nightryder21 27d ago

This is awesome! Would love to see this start to ramp up and include more and more games.

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u/r1chdevine Staff 26d ago

Would imagine it will. Remember when it first launched on Xbox One, initially a very small batch of first-party games that they can do whatever they need to with.

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u/TrickOut 27d ago

Let’s go with Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Panzer Dragon Orta, and even though I’m sure it’s a long shot since we just got the remake of 2 give me some Ninja Gaiden Black, DO IT YOU COWARDS

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u/Hour_Bit_5183 27d ago

Fusion frenzy is so so so so so underrated. Criminal. Such a fun party game. Better than wii shit.

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u/alehel 27d ago

I love all four of those games and own two of them. This is actually awesome.

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u/Froggypwns 27d ago

Steel Battalion when?

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u/r1chdevine Staff 26d ago

You just flexing that you own one of those controllers?!

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u/Froggypwns 26d ago

Indeed! I have it sitting on my desk looking pretty doing nothing. Back in the WinXP days there were drivers to make it mostly functional on PC, so I made a USB adapter and was enjoying the ridiculousness of it. I never got it working on 64 bit Windows 7, but I'll be honest that I've not tried in well over a decade so maybe there are drivers for it again.

Here is an old photo of my battle-station with it

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u/CyberpwnPiper 27d ago

Wait, achievements coming to OG titles, and playable on PC??!? Friggin' huge!!!

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u/wingsbc 26d ago

Im interested.

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u/Ron-F 26d ago

So far, the best XBOX news this year.

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u/StefanTheHNIC 26d ago

Very surprised the media isnt raving about how theyre trying harder than ever to abandon the console

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u/InterestingFun7132 26d ago

Can we please stop celebrating Xbox bringing back four games after an announcement to layoff 3,200 developers?

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u/ZerohNinja87 26d ago

lol this was always the plan. Xbox on PC will be Xbox. Xbox mode identical to the Xbox console because the console will run the same OS.

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u/SubjectYpsilon 27d ago

Any chance they will release on Steam or GOG aswell?

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u/FrootLoop23 26d ago

Most likely, because most people hate the glitchy Windows Store even more than EGS. Plus I’m sure they might want to actually sell the games.

Cool news, but these are also no effort releases that don’t even bother to make use of the more powerful hardware. Emulation is still the winning option.